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Jeremiah Wright

Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope”

John Fea   |  May 4, 2021

Barack Obama’s pastor is known for three sermons. In this episode, we put them in historical context. Episode 3: ā€œThe Audacity to Hopeā€ (our fourth episode) dropped last night. Subscribers toĀ CurrentĀ at the Longshore level and above receiveĀ this brand new narrative […]

Episode 2 of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!

John Fea   |  April 27, 2021

Episode 2: ā€œObama Goes to Church” (our third episode) dropped last night. Subscribers toĀ CurrentĀ at the Longshore level and above receiveĀ this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about Obama’s first encounter with Jeremiah Wright and what the […]

Jeremiah Wright Jr. on Ben Carson, circa 1990s

John Fea   |  April 24, 2021

How things change. Today I was reading some of Jeremiah Wright‘s sermons and came across this line in a sermon titled “Good News for Good Parents”: When all the boys want to wear their pants halfway down their hips with […]